Lost Select Aircraft preview

[ctjoyce]

Like I said. Newer drivers were made for newer cards. Use the ones in the box until you buy a new card, in which case you can use the updates. Only those with the 6600XX and above cards can use the new drivers without fail. ATi the Xxxx series and 9800xx can use up to Cat 5.10 without problem. You need the X1K and X850 series of cards to use the 5.11 and above drivers.

This may not be a hardware problem, but with a good 16 pixel pipeline card (X800GTO) is out for only $150 why wouldnt you want to upgrade that rubbish MX card to something DX9?

Cheers
Cameron

[Gunny04]

I did, a 6200 and then it went Wacko on me, was only 39.99 so I am at no loss really, and the MX defualt to the board is Fried, wont run right anymore anyways.... and the 6200 is partially fried as well, I am screwed I Guess  ;D

[ctjoyce]

But now you have learned you lesson.You buy a NEW never been used or opened card from a reputive dealer (like newegg) and you buy a good card X800GTO / 6800 or better.

Refurbs may be $100 less, but they were returned for a reason

Cheers
Cameron

[Gunny04]

was unopened an was new  ;D Prolly my fault because I didnt install it with propper PSU CT Cheers, Gunny

[ctjoyce]

Ahh i see. I thought you said that you got a refurb 6200 Mah bad.

Cheers
Cameron

[beaky]

Why don't you go and put the drivers that the card was boxed with and worked perfectly with back on your systems guys? Or at least go back to some driver that did work.

Because I am often advised that my framerate problems (especially the "80 frames, freeze! 80 frames, freeze!" thing) are there because the card is pining for updates, or something like that. Maybe I'm just stupid. Who knows?
I may well go back to the stock drivers (with coolbits; this thing is useless without a little boost), but honestly I don't miss the preview that much. And everything else is the same: that is, mediocre.
 But all that will be rendered moot when I replace/upgrade my mobo, chip, gfx card, and RAM... maybe soon.

[congo]

Because I am often advised that my framerate problems (especially the "80 frames, freeze! 80 frames, freeze!" thing) are there because the card is pining for updates, or something like that. Maybe I'm just stupid. Who knows?

Nah, sometimes things are a driver issue, but I reckon it's a lot rarer than anyone imagines. There is so much rhetoric involved. Drivers are something the average Joe can fiddle with, so he feels he's useful in an otherwise automated and mysterious computing experience. Lets face it, the myriad of software, options, settings and background processes are enough to drive us all into rash actions!

[AnGeL_MaKeR]

It's nothing to do with a refurb card... drop your AA settings down to 4x... I've got the same prob btw...

I'm running SLI w/twin 7800 gt oc's at 1280x1064 settings... had the same prob before when i had a 6800 gt oc (all cards were from bfg)... when i changed aa setting to max... preview disappeared.

[ctjoyce]

Well I tend to let my card do AA and AF not my games (ou end up with higher frames, and you get better results)

Cheers
Cameron

[Mick_C]

Weird... I decided to update my nVidia drivers (been having a new problem with sim dropping to about 7fps about six to eight times when first starting a flight), and of course I had to reinstall coolbits, which I've been using for ages to "unlock" the advanced settings on the card.
Anybody have a clue?

You probably thought of this already, but my Invidia card did this as well. I found a few things wrong. I scrapped all the add on aircraft I installed that gave any sign of trouble. Then under the Troubleshooting Section of the Flight Sim menu chose Reset Defaults.

From there, you readjust your video, and reassign key mappings for joystick etc. This was a last ditch effort before reinstalling FS9 from scratch. I've done this 4 times now after botched panel tweaks etc and it worked for me. So far, I haven't had to roll back the origional install.

I'm running a dog slow (1.2Gig) and old Celeron based sys on an Intel DG815EGEW board w 512 RAM. The Nvidia card is only 128Mb, so my system is VERY sensitive to bad configs. I found most of the time, it was a bad guage install on my part, or configuration issue with the add ons that caused the situation.  Hope this helps
Mick

[beaky]

You probably thought of this already, but my Invidia card did this as well. I found a few things wrong. I scrapped all the add on aircraft I installed that gave any sign of trouble. Then under the Troubleshooting Section of the Flight Sim menu chose Reset Defaults.

From there, you readjust your video, and reassign key mappings for joystick etc. This was a last ditch effort before reinstalling FS9 from scratch. I've done this 4 times now after botched panel tweaks etc and it worked for me. So far, I haven't had to roll back the origional install.

I'm running a dog slow (1.2Gig) and old Celeron based sys on an Intel DG815EGEW board w 512 RAM. The Nvidia card is only 128Mb, so my system is VERY sensitive to bad configs. I found most of the time, it was a bad guage install on my part, or configuration issue with the add ons that caused the situation.  Hope this helps
Mick

Been hoping to avoid that, but yes, it might work. Thanks.
BTW, the preview came back after I just reset defaults in the gfx card's OC program and started over there...

[congo]

20 odd posts and you were overclocked the whole time....... ?

























S  L  A  P  !

[beaky]

20 odd posts and you were overclocked the whole time....... ?


S  L  A  P  !

Easy, now... I've only gone a bit higher than the "optimal settings" set by the unlocked-via-Coolbits nVidia program. I thought everybody knew...
And... have had it that way for a long time, with no problems. The start-n-stop thing is relatively new. And resetting to defaults is not getting rid of it. Even tried changing the virtual memory cache size slightly... no joy.
I'm beginning to suspect an add-on or something; I'm not very thorough about noting before-and-after results, so it'd be hard to say what it might be. So far I've uninstalled a rather disappointing tree add-on (the last known change), but it still hiccups, about 7 times on average, whenever I begin a flight or resume flight after performing  any task in the "Alt"-activated menu.
Whatever... I appreciate everyone's attempts at assistance, but I'm back to average 28 fps, only slightly jaggy, and the hiccuping always stops after a few seconds... I can live with that until I upgrade.

[Skligmund]

Hmmm.

I don't have a preview screen, but it is only when I force max settings on everything via Driver with my 6800GT, regardless if I overclock or not. I expect this, as it has been doing this since the 60 series drivers (don't know before that). Other than that, everything works peachy.

[AnGeL_MaKeR]

[quote]It's nothing to do with a refurb card... drop your AA settings down to 4x... I've got the same prob btw...

I'm running SLI w/twin 7800 gt oc's at 1280x1064 settings... had the same prob before when i had a 6800 gt oc (all cards were from bfg)... when i changed aa setting to max... preview disappeared.